Finally, there's Leon McNichol, an AD Police agent doing his best to stand up to Genom and its Boomers who occasionally crosses paths with the Knight Sabers.īubblegum Crisis is a decent series in its own right, but it's particularly interesting for the historical perspective it offers-something of a seminal Cyberpunk anime series, it is the series that started the whole multi-episode OAV genre, as well as an interesting illustration of the change in production techniques between the '80s and '90s. There's also Mackie, Sylia's younger brother and the group's mechanic. They are: Sylia Stingray, the leader of the group and wealthy business owner Priss, a popular rock singer, and the loose cannon of the group Linna, an exercise instructor in her alter ego and Nene, the group's tech, who also moonlights as an AD Police office worker. There are also the Knight Sabers, a mysterious group of power-armor clad vigilante/mercenaries determined to put an end to Genom's success, and do their best to deal with rampaging Boomers in the meanwhile (while hopefully getting hired for enough work to pay for all that fancy equipment). However, Genom and its megalomaniacal leader have their sights set on no less than world domination.īut these Boomers, now pervasive, sometimes go berserk the occurrence is so common that the city has created the AD Police, a special police division created solely for the purpose of destroying Boomers run amok. The Genom Corporation, known for their intelligent labor robots (called Boomers), took a major role in the rebuilding of Tokyo, and as a result has become one of the largest corporations in the world. The year is 2032, and MegaTokyo, the metropolis at the center of Japan, is still slowly piecing itself back together after the destruction of the Second Great Kanto Earthquake.
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